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have presented themselves before their assembled countrymen , with the lie upon their lips that they were Reformers . We cannot descend to language less plain . The instantaneous conversion of the entire party , immediately upon the success of the last and deadliest of a long succession of hostile efforts , is a miracle not to be credited , and the affectation of it an hypocrisy not to be endured . Would that this were all , and that these soi-disant
novitiates of Reform had not been polluting the souls of multitudes by demoralizing practices , which in several cases have proved successful ; which in very many more were sufficiently notorious ; ami which in all are deeply disgraceful . It is evident that the Tories have gained in numerical strength by the elections . That they have done so to a sufficient extent to retain p ossession of the Government , we will not believe until we see it . By no calculations that have been made on any rational principles , by no test that we can apply , is any other result to be obtained than that as a party they are decidedly in a minority , whose only chance of success is in their superior organization , the strong bond of a selfish interest , the support of the House of Lords and the Court , and the opportunities which may occur for dividing those to whom they are opposed . It is the business of all honest representatives to render these chances unavailing .
Devoutly is it to be hoped that no false delicacy , no foolish fear of being called factious , no vain expectations of future opportunity , will interfere with that immediate decision of the great question between the Ministry and the people , which is so aptly provided for by the forms of Parliament . The battle can never be so well
fought as on the first two topics that must necessarily engage the attention of the House , viz . the choice of a Speaker , and the Address . The first is not a mere matter of form ; nor , now that the transition has been accomplished from a nomination Parliament to a representative one , can it be again treated as only a question of convenience for the despatch of business . There is nothing , henceforth , to interfere with the appointment of a man who , while
qualified by his experience and attainments for the routine duties of the office , shall also be qualified , by his principles and character , to represent the reformed House of Commons ; who shall be in sympathy with the majority of that House ; and who may , therefore , without the incongruity which was temporarily submitted to , be presented to the King , in the face of the country and the world . as the first commoner of Great Britain . To endure , now , the
elevation of a member of the party , the one party which alone disturbs and confronts the nation , to so conspicuous and honourable an office , would show an indifference and insensibility as culpable as they would be extraordinary . But while the strength or weakness of the new Administration will , in all probability , be exhibited by this question , it is that of the Address by which their fate will be decided . And here we
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/75/
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